Garment-hanger.



c. B. ULRICH.

GARMENT HANGER. APPLICATION FILED Ausiza. I915.

1,227,705. rammed May 917.

2 SHEETS-S El c. B. ULRICH.

GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.23. 1915.

1,227,705. Patented May 29, 1917.

I 2 SHEET$SHEET 2- UNITED STATES PATENT ormer.

TION OOMI 'AN'Y, OI J'AMEBTOWN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OFMASSACHUSETTS.

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Intimidation of Iietten Yatent.

PatentedMay 29, 1917.

Application fled gamut 28, 1815. Serial No. 46,887.

To all whom it may honcem: 5

Be it known that I, Cmuums B. Um'fl'oii, a citizen of the United States,and resident of Jamestown, in the county of Chautauqua and State of NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inGarment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment hangers, and while capable of eneraluse, it is articularly designed to e mounted within a closet, wardrobe,wardrobe trunk or the like. The device is complete in itself and may beconveniently mounted within a wardrobe or the like without. requiringany chan es whatsoever in the latter. The device is collapsible ortelescopic and may be conveniently collapsed and .folded into a wardrobeor the li e, and also ma be very conveniently extended and broug t outin front of the wardrobe so as to give ready access to the arments whichmay be supported upon the device.

When the device is in its normally close condition, the hanger bar, fromwhich the garments 'are directly supported, occupies a positionextending from front to rear of the device, and when the device is inits extended position to bring the garinentsout of the wardrobe, thehanger bar may be swung into a. osition at substantially right angles toits ormer position so as to-arrange the arments in a series transverselyacross the rout of the device so that each garment is readilydiscernible and conveniently accessible.

With these and other objects in view, the present invention consists inthe combination and 'arrange nentjof parts,,as. will be hereinafter morefully described, shown in the drawin and particularly set forth in the apen ed claims, it being understood that c anges in the form, proportion,size and minor details may be made, within the scope of the claims,iwithout departing from the spirit or sacri cing'an'y o the advanta' s ofthe invention.

11 the drawings, I

Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of the upper portion of awardrobe havin 'the garment hanger-of the present invention appliedthereto.

Fig. 2-is an enlarged plan view of Fig. 1, the top of the wardrobe beingremoved and "end with a groove of a vertica thefarment hanger shown init open or exten ed condition.

Fig. 3 is a front view of the device in its normal or closed condition.

Fig. 4 isa sectional view on the line 44 of Fig. 2 on a reduced scale.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged fragmentary detail 4 view.

Like characters of reference designate corresponding parts in each ofthe several figures of the drawin The present device includes asubstantially rectangular frame 1 disposed in a substantially horizontalposition and preferably of metal. Each side of the frame is pieferably achannel bar, and the frame may made of one or more pieces, as may bedesired. Within the frame and extending forwardly from the back thereofare two substantially parallel rods or bars 2 and 3 preferably cyindrical or circular in crosssection. Each rod is suitably connected tothe rear end of the frame 1, and the two rods are located equallydistant at opposite sides of the longitudinal center of the frame andspaced only a slight distance apart. These rods terminate short of thefrontend of the frame and are bowed or curved outwardly toward therespective sides of the frame, as shown at 4 an 5, the forward extremityof each rod b'ein' suitably connected to the adjacent side 0 the framenear the front end thereof. Beneath the frame is a substantiallyhorizontal garment hanger bar 6 which is suspended from a pair of rollerbrackets 7, eac bracket bein provided at its upper or flanged roller 8,while the lower end of the bracket is pivoted to then per side of thebar 6 by means pivot connection 9. One of these roller brackets ismounted to travel upon the rod or track. 3, while the other rollerbracket is mounted to travel upon the other track 2, the rollers 8, ofcourse, being upon the upper sides of the track members. It will here benoted that the bars 2 and 3 constitute a guideway, while the parts 4 and5 of said rods constitute guideway branches forming continuations of theguldewaiy and extending transversely in c posite irections from thefront of the guideway.

The normal osition of the hanger bar is shown in dot lines at A in Fig.2 of the i draw said bar lying beneath the track members 9' and 8 andopposite the space therebetween, the front on I of the bar bein at orslightl in rear of the front end 0 the frame. y pulling u on the frontend of the ban er bar, it. wil move forwardly, the roller rackets.traveling on the respective tracks,-and by'conti'nued pulling upon thebar, the latter will gradually assume the position shown in dotted linesat B and eventually take a position transversely across the front of thedevice, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawinfispby reason ofthe factthat the roller brac ets will follow the tracks and thus change theposition of the hanger bar from the osition A to the position shown infull mes transversely across the front of the device. When the hangerbar 6 is in the position shown in Fig. 1, its association with the trackor guideway branches prevents swinging of the hanger bar about avertical axis.

Any suitable or preferred form of garment hangers 10 may be hun from thehanger bar 6, as best s own in ig. 1 of the drawings, so that when" thehanger bar is in its transverse position across the front of the device,the garment hangers will be disposed in a series transversely across thefront vof the. device, which permits of a convenient inspection of allof the garments and enables the convenient selection of any one of them.a At each end of the hanger bar 6 there is a suitable stop or shoulder11 to prevent the garment h is. from being accidentally pushed or lpuled off of either end of the bar.

t e device is mounted within an inclosure, such for instance as awardrobe, 0. portion of a conventional form of which has been shown inthe accom an ing drawings at 12, the side bars of t e mine 1 are mountedto slide back and forth in suitable guideways within the'wardrobe and atopposite sides thereof. A satisfactory guideway is a channel'bar, suchas shown at 13, suitably secured to the adjacent wall of the wardrobe,the front of the channel bar be'- ing 0 so as to permit of the sidebarof the s 'dable frame working throu h said '0 en end. The rear end-0fthe gui eway is c osed, as at 14, so as to form a stop to limit therearward movement of the frame. To prevent binding and give an easymovement to the slidabl'efframe, the rear end of each side-of theslidable frame, is provided with -top and bottom rollers 15 and 16 totravel within and against the top and bottom, respectively, of theguideway, The idewa terminatesshOrtof the front of t e war v ,robe,.andan anti-friction supporting roller aving its rear working through an 0cm 19 in the of the guide'way and a apte to drop 1n engagement with amounted upon the top of; each guideway member and seat orshoulder'on'the top of the adjacent side of the'slidable frame.- sprmg-presseddog or detent frame may be the manipulation of the dog or frame may bereadily taken out of the guldeway ytrippmg the dog and holding it clearof the frame when pulling the latter out of the guideway.

Haw thus described the invention, what is c aimed is:

1. A garment be By usm the slide Is very conveniently pulled into ercompris' a supporting frame, a gui eway extendmg from the rear towardthe ,front of the frame, guldeway branches formin continuations of theguideway and extending transversely 1n opposite directions from thefront of the gm away, a hanger bar, andslides travel mg n ,on the dewaand .pivotally connee to the anger ar, each slide also travehng upon itsrespective guideway branch.

2. garment hanger comprisin porting frame, s aced track mem tendingframe 1n substantial parallelism and divergmg at the front ofthe frame,a hen er bar, and a pair of roller brackets pivotay connected to the barandmounted to travel upon the respective track members.

3. The combination of a case or cabinet having an open side, a guidewaytherein leading to the open side of the frame mounted in said guidewable of being projected through-t e thereof and provided with branchesforming continuations of the guideway and extendin transversely in opfrom t e front of the 1 eway, a hanger lfiar, ang-slidel's t1pivoii:18 ycarlrlied b the 'ger ar-an ave' .onte iewa and the branches thereof. guy v CHARLES B. ULRICH. wlm =4: 1 I Oman D. Danna, R. FnN'roN Frame.

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